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- Evergreen and easy-care bamboo garden
- Which bamboo for which garden?
- The best conditions for a low-maintenance bamboo garden
- Bamboo as a versatile garden plant
- Tips & Tricks
Evergreen and easy-care bamboo garden
A bamboo garden welcomes us as an evergreen oasis. Enjoy beauty, silence and relaxation endlessly and be one with nature. Who wants to have such a paradise in the garden needs to know which species are suitable and how to make the bamboo garden easy to care for?
There are 47 genera with more than 1300 species worldwide. Bamboo is not just bamboo and it is not just green: The rhizome-forming flat-tube bamboo Phyllostachys is depending on the variety yellow-green striped to dull black. The bamboo species and varieties are huge and divided into these four groups:
Which bamboo for which garden?
Which role in the garden should the bamboo play? Guardian, protector, shadow donor or exotic eye-catcher? Bamboo plants fulfill many wishes. As container plant for terrace and balcony. In the pot as an ornamental plant. Who plans a secluded garden, can plant the bamboo as a hedge. As a privacy screen for a secluded seat at the garden pond and not only there, but also outside the garden as an ornament and nibbling grass in the aquarium.
Bamboo should not only be selected according to location, soil condition or beauty. Especially important in addition to the individual growth behavior, especially its winter hardiness and susceptibility to wind. For gardeners and hobby gardeners the two most important bamboo groups are:
The Flachrohrbambus reached in wintermild climate as a giant bamboo heights up to 9 meters and stems up to 5 centimeters. Its filigree leaves with decorative stems convince every garden owner. For example, Phyllostachys vivax Aureocaulis is yellow with green longitudinal stripes. Phyllostaxgys nigra shows a purple-brown to almost black drawing on older stalks.
The umbrella bamboo tolerates dryness better than other species. As a medium bamboo he reaches a height of up to 4 meters. Its picturesque overhanging crown acts as a shadow donor. It forms only short rhizomes.
In addition, there is the group of ground cover such as Sasa and Pleioblastus with only 1 meter in height. Because of the spreading urge to limit bamboo with rhizome barrier!
Good to know: Rhizome-forming bamboos need much more care and space. For a small garden plot they are less suitable.
The horstig awake species are particularly easy to care for, evergreen, hardy and can be shaped and cut according to your mood. As a single specimen plant in the garden, as a pot or pot bamboo, they fulfill all your desires for a low-maintenance bamboo garden even in a small plot. Only the bamboos of the genus Fargesia garden bamboo and Borinda come into question.
The best conditions for a low-maintenance bamboo garden
Have you selected and purchased an easy-care and haunted bamboo for your garden? Congratulations! Now you can be active in the garden. Prepare optimal bamboo site accordingly. Dig out the plant hole twice the size of the plant. Fill in drainage with expanding concrete or gravel to prevent waterlogging. Then mix 1: 1 trash with special bamboo soil and fill. Watch for a pH of 6.5. This is ideal for the growth of bamboo.
After watering the root ball, you can plant the new bamboo. Do not forget to water the bamboo thoroughly and water it with lime-free rainwater or energized bamboo water. Also in the next few weeks, the bamboo regularly needs water, possibly an organic bamboo fertilizer and some care, so that it roots well. Only in the spring bamboo cut before the new shoot!
Bamboo as a versatile garden plant
Bamboo can highlight beautiful things as well as hide disturbing ones. Ideas and uses are virtually unlimited in the case of bamboo:
Depending on the species of bamboo the plants can be used individually or in combination with other plants as:
Tips & Tricks
Neighborly bamboo is treated like a decorative shrub. Therefore, comply with the specified margins. For rhizomes create root rhizomes!